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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died last August after battling lung cancer for two years. Her post about the state of cancer research and funding, and lung cancer in particular, is well worth a read: blog.youtube/inside-youtu...

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I was lucky enough to find two wellness representatives who offered useful suggestions and recommendations to help my mom through chemo and radiation, but this does not seem to be the norm. www.allure.com/story/wellne...

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iPhone 16e, NVIDIA's AI for sign language & the demise of the Humane AI Pin—what does it all mean? 🤖 @MikahSargent, @jp2e.bsky.social @apollozac.bsky.social & @scottstein.bsky.social break it down on Tech News Weekly 375! 🔥 #AI #TechNews 📥 Download & subscribe:

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Oscar-nominated #PorcelainWar must cut a streaming deal. As things stand if you didn’t see this film at Sundance or in its limited theater release, you don’t have this poignant, first-person/first dog perspective on the realities of the war in Ukraine. Please let more Americans see this film 🙏

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Opportunity for we Elder Statespeople to teach the SEC how to use their decorative law books 📚 (assuming those subscriptions are anywhere near current including Shepard’s…)

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I just finished Cory Doctorow’s latest book, Picks and Shovels, and I highly recommend it. Be warned, however, that if you’re a tech/hacker type of a certain age, you will be constantly distracted by bouts of nostalgic web searches that will accompany the reading. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Interest rates: high. Car prices: going up. Invest in ride sharing and public transportation? 🚘🚆

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Some winter joy to brighten your day.

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📺 YouTube dominates TV, BuzzFeed fights AI-driven social media, & Musk's empire thrives. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @paris.nyc & @MikahSargent.com break it all down on Intelligent Machines 806! What's next? Download and subscribe here: https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/806

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"In December, Chinese regulators said Nvidia might have violated local antitrust laws, in a move interpreted as a warning that Beijing, too, has cards to play if Washington gets tough" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvid...

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This is huge. "De minimis" is the $-value above which tariffs apply - it doesn't make sense to spend $4 to collect $0.50 in tariffs. Some online retailers (famously, Shein) intentionally send many small-$-value orders to avoid paying tariffs (instead of one big shipment). That option's gone.

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Catch up on what happened in US tech policy in January with a roundup from Freedman Consulting’s J.J. Tolentino and Rachel Lau, and Tech Policy Press’s Benjamin Lennett, including coverage of #TikTok’s momentary reprieve, #Trump’s tech-focused EOs, and other important developments.

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Here are some humans erecting a sign for an AI customer-service company

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A good article to read and save re how to challenge health care cost and coverage issues, and resources and help re same. By Ines Bellina: hellogloria.com/health/how-t...

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Big week in privacy down south. "Trump’s Sacking of PCLOB Members Threatens Data Privacy" www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

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Aspirationally dull: a fascinating look at the marvels of mundanity, from Isabela Slone’s Freak Palace (Substack): freakpalace.substack.com/p/the-import...

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Such an incredible day and so proud of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social team for the work that went into making this a reality. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and heroic attempts to melt the servers with your, um, imaginative queries. Keep sharing the fun things you find in the archive!

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This is a great headline. It's also a great legal issue. Peter Henderson and I have an article doubting the enforceability of AI terms of service against just such copying: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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We explored health care equity issues with scholar and advocate Brook Baker on R&D with D&D. Available on Apple, Spotify, etc., and at @hearsayculture.bsky.social.

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I'm on Hearsay Culture, ostensibly to talk about AI and internet regulation (and we ultimately do) but mostly we ended up talking about what to do when your country is collapsing

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Trump has revoked Biden’s AI safety order, shifting U.S. policy from regulation-heavy standards like the EU's. This move could create a fragmented global AI landscape. How will companies adapt to these diverging rules? thelegalwire.ai/trumps-ai-po... #LegalTech #LegalAI

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2025:

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We need to proceed on all fronts here, developing treatments that are less scattershot and harsh, and more effective. Hoping this is a step in the right direction.

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Prediction: lawsuits over data scraping will be litigation trench warfare, where sapping your adversary's resources is at least as important as prevailing. Example: X v. Bright Data.

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Peak sandwich status achieved: three generations, one #doordash account.

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It's only compelled technology transfer when a foreign country does it to us, otherwise it's just sparkling deal-making.

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Dumbest First Amendment hypo ever just dropped. If US owns TikTok can it moderate? Can it even use the algorithm to promote some content over other in a way that doesn't violate the First Amendment

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Arguably scarier than what Congress sought to prevent.

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Maybe (likely?) this is all on me, but for years my Insta FYP has been weird to the point of jawdroppingly surreal. I’m not sure what to make of it, other than it’s an extremely interesting and heads ratching business choice/strategy.

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“The United States' foreign foes easily can steal, scrape, or buy Americans' data by countless other means. The ban or forced sale of one social media app will do virtually nothing to protect Americans' data privacy - only comprehensive consumer privacy legislation can achieve that goal.”

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EFF's Cooper Quintin spoke with NBC News about what Rednote users should consider, and how "people who are thirsty for platforms that aren’t controlled by the same few oligarchs will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks.” Read more: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

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“We need to both beat China on the technology and in shaping and setting global usage and monitoring of it, so bad actors don't use it catastrophically.” All common sense and kinda old news for those in or routinely following the field, but the urgent tone of this interview is notable.

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I went on ABC News last night to talk about TikTok/data security stuff. Did my best to emphasize that China’s gonna get the data anyway! abcnews.go.com/US/video/wir...

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My hot take on the TikTok opinion: the Court tried but failed to make no new law here. The very worst part of the opinion (I think right now) is that it gives govts space to whitewash bad content-based motivations by tacking on plausible-sounding content-neutral ones

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SCOTUS unanimously upholds TikTok ban; no discussion of the speech interests of the 170 million US users who will be cut off. They are careful to say their holding is "narrow" in the sense that it wouldn't justify regulating data collection by any other platform www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Breaking: Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban-or-sale law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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